ha, hull
― caek, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes!
― tomofthenest, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought Penzance looked a bit familiar there. And I should have got Hull - the aquarium is very distinctive after all.
103:
http://www.symbolicforest.com/img/ilx/mystery-city-1.jpg
― Forest Pines Mk2, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link
bristol
― caek, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link
clifton village
― caek, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Bah, evidently far too easy.
104:
http://www.symbolicforest.com/img/ilx/mystery-city-2.jpg
― Forest Pines Mk2, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
ah, that's really familiar. I'll get it soon.
― tomofthenest, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
99 - North Central/eastern PA, too small for Scranton, hm? Williamsport?
― doo dah, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
104: Southend / Leigh-on-Sea?
― Tim, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link
104 is somewhere I've been - Filey maybe?
― tomofthenest, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
104 is scarborough, isn't it?
― caek, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 16:06 (fifteen years ago) link
99 is close but not Williamsport
104 - Bridlington?
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 16:46 (fifteen years ago) link
think Caek's right on 104.
― tomofthenest, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:04 (fifteen years ago) link
104: nobody's right yet, but some people are quite close.
― Forest Pines Mk2, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Whitby?
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
got it I think... Saltburn?
― tomofthenest, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 19:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Yep, Saltburn
― Forest Pines Mk2, Thursday, 22 January 2009 08:24 (fifteen years ago) link
99. Is it Jim Thorpe?
― jarvis redwine, Thursday, 22 January 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
this is coolhttp://xl.skyscrapercity.com/?page=satellite
― ilx robot (jergins), Monday, 30 March 2009 21:42 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3120/3182129980_226dff369e_b.jpg
^^ 99 isn't Jim Thorpe, still unguessed
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 9 July 2009 07:30 (fourteen years ago) link
altoona?
― iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 01:47 (fourteen years ago) link
that's impossible but yeah it looks like some pa mining town
― harbl, Monday, 30 November 2009 01:51 (fourteen years ago) link
why's it impossible? i'm basing my guess on the little bit of yellow i see at the bottom of the beige mercury sable or whatever's license plate, plus the rolling hills, plus the too small to be pittsburgh.
― iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 01:54 (fourteen years ago) link
because it looks a lot like a couple places in pa i think. it's hard to tell them apart.
― harbl, Monday, 30 November 2009 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
almost looks too big to be altoona to me
― tehresa, Monday, 30 November 2009 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
it's ashland, pa!
― harbl, Monday, 30 November 2009 02:08 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ flickr confirms this as fact! sorry, cherry blossom, for webmail summoning you to this thread needlessly.
does winner choose the next photo, is that how this thread works?
― iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 02:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i wanted to go read though! i can pick one tomorrow or something.i'm amazed i knew because there must be 100 places that look like that but i just thought it looked like that one place i made my dad detour to so we could see centralia but i forgot what it was called. i remembered there were signs for anthracite real estate there and i googled it to remember it was ashland.
― harbl, Monday, 30 November 2009 02:17 (fourteen years ago) link
oh when i said it was impossible i meant it was impossible to guess, not impossible that it was altoona. i don't know what altoona looks like.can someone put up another? i'm no good at picking one
― harbl, Monday, 30 November 2009 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I had promised I wasn't going to play this any more, but here's 105:
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/2308/bigboat.jpg
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 30 November 2009 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, the ship's the QE2, which doesn't really narrow it down that much really, since it's been everywhere. I'll guess Honolulu.
― ailsa, Monday, 30 November 2009 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
You usually guess mine instantly, ailsa, but not this time. Here's another angle:
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/914/noboat.jpg
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 30 November 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
miami?</lazy>
― tehresa, Monday, 30 November 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
galveston?
― harbl, Monday, 30 November 2009 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
the downtown structure def. looks north american, and that little jetty looks forested, and the light makes it look fairly high latitude, which makes me think it's in canada, but since there are no mountains within ~50 miles of the first shot, it's not vancouver. maybe an atlantic city like halifax? thunder bay?
― iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
You're all way off.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 30 November 2009 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
A Coruna? Valencia?
― ailsa, Monday, 30 November 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
perth?
― caek, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
(not the one in scotland)
None of those. I could post a suitably gritty street scene, if you'd prefer to guess from micro rather than macro.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i thought maybe it was perth earlier, but it doesn't seem to match the google maps aerial. then i checked all 100K+ cities in new zealand, no go. can you tell us which hemisphere this is in? i've already spent way too much time on this one.
― iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah post that street scene
― iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I've just been googling round European ports with no joy.
― ailsa, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
durban?
― caek, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
that looks like a rugby ground to me
the buildings almost look too modern to be a developed european city, plus the stadium in the lower left of the second picture looks like a soccer stadium now that i think about it. so now i think this is def. south america and not def. north america like i thought before.
― iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
(yes, or "rugby")
― iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
is it kingston
― harbl, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought it was an athletics ground or a v. old football stadium
― ailsa, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i47.tinypic.com/2vimsg5.jpg
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link